Strange line-wrapping behavior

[Joe Swann]

I have noticed strange line-wrapping behavior in Affinity Publisher (I happen to be using a Mac). I would not have found this if it had not been for the fact that I am writing a book and have created a text box on a master page to hold my chapter titles. As a matter of personal preference, I have set a style for my chapter titles to be in small caps.

To recreate what I am seeing on my end, do the following:

1. Start a new Publisher document.
2. Place a text box on the page.
3. Fill it with a sentence or two of text.
4. Grab the right edge handle of the box and play with the width. You should see normal line-wrapping behavior where the words reflow at the space characters.
5. Select all the text and change it to small caps.
6. Repeat step 4. On my end, the word will reflow strangely, not respecting word integrity by breaking at the space characters, but at the boundary of the text frame..

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, Joe Swann said:

2. Place a text box on the page.

What kind of text object are you using, Is it Frame or Artistic text?

[Joe Swann]

Frame.

Additionally, I noticed that after typing in my chapter title, I clicked into the frame text box for the body, which is assigned the Body paragraph style. This style does not use small caps, but I noticed the style menu read "Body+" and that the small caps carried over from typing in the chapter title frame text box. No other attributes from the Chapter Title paragraph style carried over but the capitalization setting.

[walt.farrell]

14 hours ago, Joe Swann said:

Select all the text and change it to small caps

What method did you use to change it to small caps?

[Joe Swann]

I suppose you could say it is inherited.

1. I modified the Base style to my liking.
2. I created the Body paragraph style based on the Base style.
3. I created the Chapter Tiel paragraph style based on the Body style and edited it to be a larger font size and small caps.
4. I created a master page for the chapter title pages. On that master page, I created a frame text box for the chapter title, and when the cursor was blinking in that box, I selected the Chapter Title style.

Later, when adding content to the book:

1. I import the contents of a chapter into the right side of a two-page spread based on a two-page spread on the master page. First, I break the link between the body frame text boxes and then import the text by clicking File > Place.
2. I shift-click the link handle to auto-create all the pages in the chapter.
3. I return to the first page of the chapter and change its master page to the chapter title master page.
4. I type the chapter title into the appropriate frame text box.

Maybe that's too much detail, but that's how the small caps setting is applied.

[walt.farrell]

8 hours ago, Joe Swann said:

edited it to be a larger font size and small caps

What I was asking for was how you set it for small caps. Details on that, please, as there are multiple possibilities there. (Though that may not end up being relevant.)

[Joe Swann]

I essentially set small caps when I created the Chapter Title paragraph style, clicked on Capitals in the edit style box, and then selected the Small Caps radio button. Because that style was chosen for that text frame when I set up the master page, I did not, in the moment of typing in my chapter title, do anything like Text > Capitalization > Small Caps.